Seminars and Colloquia 2008 - 2009
Colloquia
November 15th
Basic Theory of Imprecise Probability
Carl Wagner, University of Tennessee
November 15th
Imprecise Probability and Conditionalization
Carl Wagner, University of Tennessee
December 3rd
Knowledge, Politics, and Commercialization: Science under the
Pressure of Practice
Martin Carrier, Bielefeld University
February 4th
Do Singular Causal Claims Have Truth-Claims?
Peter Menzies, Macquarie University
March 16th
A Formal Analysis of Social Procedures
Eric Pacuit, Stanford University
April 16th
A Bayesian Adjudication of Social Procedures
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Tomoji Shogenji, Rhode Island College
Seminars
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Winter Semester
September 2nd
A New Causal Power Theory
Kevin Korb, Monash University and TiLPS
September 23rd
What scientific phenomena are not (and what they could be)
Jochen Apel, University of Heidelberg and TiLPS
October 7th
Evidence and Experimental Design in Sequential Trials
Jan Sprenger, TiLPS
October 21st
The Explanatory Account of Truth
Filip Buekens, TiLPS
November 4th
From Coherence to Unification
Jonah Schupbach, University of Pittsburgh and TiLPS
November 25th
Experimental Epistemology: Its Scope and Limits
Dorette van der Tholen, TiLPS
December 9th
The Lewis-Reichenbach Debate and its Relevance to Contemporary Epistemology
Jeanne Peijnenburg, University of Groningen
Philosophy of Linguistics: Winter Semester
September 24th
Part 1: Logical Dynamics by the Hour
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam and Stanford
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September 24th
Part 2: Bridging the Gap between Experiment and Formal Modeling: The case of Referring Expressions
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University
September 24th
Part 3: Agreement Theorems from the Perspective of DynamicEpistemic Logic
Olivier Roy, University of Groningen
October 8th
UG and the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
October 29th
The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument in View of Bayesian Modeling
November 5th
The Computational Expressiveness of the Language of Acyclic Recursion
Roussanka Loukanova , Uppsala University and TiLPS
November 12th
Evidence in Linguistics
December 8th
Seminar ’Thinking of Words’: Is Meaning Realism Attainable for
Linguistic Naturalists? Some Afterthoughts on Quine’s Indeterminacy Argument
Markus Werning (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf ), Leonoor Oversteegen & Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University)
January 19th
Seminar
Wolfram Hinzen (Durham University), Boban Arsenijevic (Universiteit Leiden)
Philosophy of Psychology: Winter Semester
(No program available)
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Philosophy and Economics: Winter Semester
(No program available)
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Spring Semester
February 17th
Ontology and the Individuation of Scientific Levels
Raphael van Riel, University of Bochum and TiLPS
March 3rd
Metaphilosophical Ruminations on Theoretical Term Reference
Ioannis Votsis, University of Düsseldorf
March 10th
Neo-Expressivism, Disagreement and Conflicting Commitments
Filip Buekens, TiLPS
April 27th
Soft Skepticism, Cognitive Accountability, and the Probilistic Account of Knowledge
Igal Kvart, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 13th
Experiments on Epistemic Contextualism
Dorette van der Tholen, TiLPS
May 19th
In Defense of Epistemological Analyticity. A Reply to Williamson
Thomas Grundmann, Universität zu Köln
Philosophy and Economics: Spring Semester
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